The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down.
The streets are crumbling.
The water utility can’t keep the water flowing.
Texas Gas Services has inexplicably jacked their “delivery fee” resulting in a doubling or tripling of gas bills.
The El Paso Electric Company is hitting us up for 14% rate increase, or $13.71 a month for the average customer.
The El Paso Police Department continues to kill people who are having mental health crises, and the cops are taser happy.
The El Paso Independent School District is floating another bond election to combat lower attendance and aging infrastructure.
And the Catholic Diocese of El Paso is filing for bankruptcy because of lawsuits for sex abuse.
Our cost of living is rising but our quality of life is in decline.
I’d love to find some good news, but I’m not seeing any.
Woe are we. Oh, woe are we.